With a heavy heart I want to share the news of our former mentor Courtney Brousseau's death. He graduated from UC Berkeley one year ago and was tragically shot a week ago in San Francisco - an innocent bystander in the wrong place at the wrong time. …
The Wide Range of Kid Coders Starting with a New Mentor
The school year is chugging along, and Breakout Mentors has already paired dozens of kid coders with new coding mentors. For some students, this is their very first time programming and others we have worked with for years. Our goal is to …
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Solve Your Kids Coding Needs Once and For All
Parenting today involves navigating a dizzying array of options. There are more kids products than ever before, more activity options than time in the day. The worst part: as soon as one decision is made, you'll soon have to make it again. …
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The Top 3 Skills to Teach Your Kids
The goal of education is to prepare children for life. However, education doesn't just happen in the classroom, parents can start at an early age, and there are lots of necessary skills to teach your kids so they can achieve success in …
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Remembering Mischa
It's with a heavy heart that I share with the Breakout Mentors community the passing of Mischa Nee. Mischa was a junior at Stanford and involved in a hiking accident while studying abroad. Mischa was part of Breakout Mentors the last two years, …
Coding a Christmas Game – Featured Kid Programming Project
You never know where inspiration will strike. Peter is a 13 year-old boy in 8th grade at the Chinese American International School in San Francisco. He started with a coding mentor back in September and right away started making exciting …
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Being a Girl in STEM – Having Few Peers and Finding Role Models
I distinctly remember the first time I realized that I was in the significant minority in a STEM class. I was in my high school AP Physics class with 3 girls (myself included) and 12 boys. One of my female classmates pointed it out to me - "Where …
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Middle School Girl’s Coding Project: From Scratch to Android Java
"igpay atinlay anslatortray" If you were once a kid, you may recognize the above as Pig Latin. Recently, a Breakout Mentors student created a Pig Latin translator app for Android phones using Java. This young lady from Oakland is only 14 years …
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What I Wish I Knew About Coding Before Stanford
Jeyla is one of our kid coding mentors at Stanford University and shares her perspective about what she wishes she knew earlier about learning to code. As a Computer Science major, it’s no surprise that I love to code. However, this wasn’t always …
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Keep the Hour of Code Momentum Going All Year Long
The Hour of Code is an incredible annual event that encourages every school to spend one hour of class time coding. The vast adoption worldwide is remarkable. Did you know that over 100 million students have participated across 180 …
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